Authorize.netT Merchant Partnership

Press Release

For Immediate Release, February 1999

NetStores announces their alliance with
Authorize.Net

NetStores' Shopping Cart software is now
compatible and integrated with Authorize.Net's payment solution,
providing a gateway to credit card authorization from a merchant's
website. NetStores offers the most complete solution for
e-commerce, including website hosting, shopping cart, and
instant credit card authorization--adaptable to any merchant's
website hosted anywhere on the World Wide Web.

Authorize.Net is the primary provider of credit card authorization and processing
services, with more than 21,000 online and traditional business customers.
Now it is easier than ever for Authorize.Net's resellers to persuade merchants
to begin doing business over the Internet. With NetStores' e-commerce solution,
Authorize.Net resellers can now readily provide complete e-commerce capabilities
to any merchant that has a website on the Internet. Authorize.Net's credit
card processing gateway, paired with NetStores' e-commerce solution, is a
fast, easy and efficient way to incorporate e-commerce into any merchant's
website.

NetStores' e-commerce solution is superior because it is both quick and convenient
for merchants to set up, and is user-friendly for the merchant's customers.
NetStores' e-commerce solution is unique because customers can more easily
search, find and select desired products in a merchant's website. Then, once
the products have been selected, the order is computed, listed, and totaled
instantly. This is very different than most website order forms in which
customers not only have a difficult time searching for and finding desired
products, but often have to figure out prices and totals on their own! And
unlike many of those other web shopping applications, Netstores' e-commerce
solution is compatible with both Authorize.Net and CyberCash, so it can instantly
collect payment and process transactions for merchants.

NetStores is an early leader in e-commerce. Founded in 1995, NetStores
was one of the first in the industry to integrate its web shopping application
for merchants with CyberCash credit card authorization and secure server
technology. Along with its unique Shopping Cart, NetStores offers its clients
customized website "storefronts" to integrate e-commerce onto the clients'
existing websites. NetStores' e-commerce experts will work with its clients'
Webmasters to complete sites that perfectly fit every client's distinctive
needs--websites they may maintain themselves, changing items and prices as
needed. NetStores provides website hosting, which includes guidance throughout
the set-up process, as well as responsive, effective technical support when
it's needed thereafter. Thus, Merchants don't need to spend money on extra
staff, a server, or expensive software. NetStores e-commerce solution is
a perfect match for businesses of all sizes with existing websites and/or
catalogs who want an efficient, secure and affordable website ordering system
that makes it easy for customers to place an order.

"Right now the barrier to entry in the electronic commerce market is psychological.
Small and medium-sized businesses are intimidated by what they perceive as complicated,
expensive systems that have to be developed to conduct business on the internet," said
David O. Heaps, President of Authorize.Net. "The truth is, the Internet is the
most conducive business environment available today. True E-Business puts the
power of e-commerce in the hands of businesses because it enables them to cost-effectively
build their business on the Internet without having to become experts in website
authoring, computer programming, or payment processing."

NetStores is a comprehensive electronic-commerce solution. NetStores provides
everything a business needs to establish e-commerce on its website--quickly
and efficiently. NetStores provides the software, the server, and expert
resources to integrate complete e-commerce capabilities into a merchant's
existing website. This is most comprehensive, secure and expeditious way
for merchants to literally sell their products from their website and instantly
expand their business through e-commerce.